Word: branded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South Dakota faces even greater handicaps than he did in his astonishing march to the nomination. Although his party suffered no humiliation similar to the one caused by the street violence and turbulence of the 1968 Chicago convention, it emerged from Miami Beach badly split over McGovern's brand of populism and the reformist zeal of his insurgents in taking party control away from its veteran power brokers. At the same time, national approval of Richard Nixon's conduct as President is running at 56%, and a preconvention Gallup poll puts him 16% ahead of McGovern...
...most issues. Senator McGovern has exhibited about as much stick-to-itive-ness as Brand X denture adhesive...
...Eisenhower, who compiled player statistics in 1970 for the then Washington Senators, the President picked two separate teams, pre-and post-World War II, for each league. He explained his choices in some 2,800 words that re flected both a sure grasp of sport cliches and his own brand of rhetoric. He repeatedly used the term "get the nod" and said of a choice: "I have always had enormous respect for him, not only as a fine player but as a leader...
...once again on trial. Cavett's literate charm could probably never match the broad appeal of Carson's accomplished vaudeville or woo away the diehard movie buffs. But should he have to? If he cannot, should the more than 3,200,-000 viewers who want his brand of intelligent alternative programming be summarily disfranchised...
...state's Blue Cross group health insurance system and ordered its directors to renegotiate Blue Cross contracts with some 90 hospitals. The new contracts must include 34 cost-control guidelines that he proposed. For example, hospitals now have to buy generic drugs instead of more expensive name-brand drugs. In Blue Cross's defense, Denenberg notes that the system returns 96? in benefits for every premium dollar, compared with 53? to 58? on the dollar for most nongroup health companies. For that reason, Denenberg has proposed giving Blue Cross and other group systems a statewide health insurance monopoly...